Did you see the Muammar Qaddafi argument for a one-state solution on the Times Op-Ed page today? It’s dreck. He denies the Nakba (at least an important part of it) and claims the settlements are a sign of successful assimilation!…
Yes, it’s in Europe, in the Irish Times…But the great thing that’s happening is that the Israel lobby no longer controls the debate over Israel/Palestine. Anybody’s allowed to register their opinion! What do you call that?
Some links and commentary by AC: A painful video from AJE on the war’s youngest victims. And did you read this? The futility of Israel’s bloody war only grows more undeniable. Regard the reception by some in Israel of the…
I wrote just now that many on the left believe that Israel destroyed the idea of the Jewish state with Gaza. This is the intellectual news of Gaza. As the center tries to hold on to what is left of…
My New York Review of Books arrived in my mailbox yesterday, and it has one piece on Gaza by Roger Cohen that’s very good but not great. I wrote about it a few days ago; it seems to me to…
A friend writes: The Hasbara Prize goes to Isabel Kershner of the Times for this exemplary reporting from 1/20 Times: “Israeli Arabs Recoil at Attacks on Gaza as Allegiance to Their Country Is Strained”: UMM AL FAHM, Israel– Gleaming branches…
I regard this blog as a clearinghouse for leftwing/realist ideas about the Middle East. That’s the only way I’m going to make it important, which is my goal. I am trying to move a lot of opinion by Arabs, Muslims,…
Livni seemed flummoxed at the National Press Club last week. And now there’s this. Yedioth Ahranoth reports: Israel’s concerns about possible international lawsuits following Operation Cast Lead is apparently growing, as even the fate of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s trip…
Even Barbara Lee, leftish congresswoman from Oakland and Berkeley, is ensnared in the tentacles of the you-know-what. Here is a wonderful letter to the Daily Planet by Henry Norr (born Jewish) scoring the Israel-occupied Congress: sad to say, the example…